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Hollywood actress Farrah Fawcett passed away on Thursday in a Southern California hospital after a three-year battle with cancer. She was 62.
Her long-time companion, Ryan O'Neal, who had earlier this week announced their intention for getting married, said that Fawcett died at 16: 28 GMT at the St John's Health Centre in Santa Monica with her friends and family at her side.
Fawcett was very famous in the 1970s and 1980s, largely due to her most famous role as a female detective on the hit TV show Charlie's Angels. But she was equally known for her iconic poster, which featured her in a red bathing suit, with her extravagant blonde locks, flashing a million-dollar smile.
"Farrah had courage, she had strength and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels," said Jaclyn Smith, who co-starred with Fawcett in Charlie's Angels.
Fawcett dropped out of Charlie's Angel after just one season to pursue more serious acting roles. But she never regained the acclaim she had in that show. In 1995, she surprised her fans by posing for Playboy at the age of 48, and it became the magazine's best-selling issue of that decade.
Born in February 1947 in Corpus Christi, Texas, Fawcett died just six weeks after the broadcast of Farrah's Story, a documentary she made about her battle with cancer, Fawcett shaved off her famous hair last year, when it began falling because of her cancer treatments.
O'Neal had been Fawcett's companion since 1982, and the couple had a son together, Redmond, 24, who is currently serving time for drug offences. Previously she had been married to US television star Lee Majors.
